ENGL 102 Pre-Test 1

Question 1 

1. “Malabar! Malabar! Did I say      Malabar, Mother?”

 
Scofield
 
Wesley
 
O.T.
 
Paul
1 points
Question 2 

1. Poe felt that death of a beautiful      woman was the highest form of beauty:

True
False
1 points
Question 3 

1. The main or central character in a      narrative:

 
Round character
 
Foil
 
Antagonist
 
Protagonist
1 points
Question 4 

1. The new recruit had been with the      gang since the beginning of the summer holidays, and there were      possibilities about his brooding silence that all recognized. He never      wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the      rules. When he said “Trevor” it was a statement of fact, not as it would      have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. Nor did anyone      laugh except Mike, who finding himself without support and meeting the      dark gaze of the newcomer opened his mouth and was quiet again. There was      every reason why T., as he was afterward referred to, should have been an      object of mockery—there was his name (and they substituted the initial      because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it), the fact that      his father, a former architect and present clerk, had “come down in the      world” and that his mother considered herself better than the neighbors.      What but an odd quality of danger, of the unpredictable, established him      in the gang without any ignoble ceremony of initiation?
   (From “The Destructors” by Graham Greene)
   From the above passage, one can characterize Trevor or T as      _______________.

 
naïve
 
indifferent
 
different
 
brave
1 points
Question 5 

1. Compiled A Thousand and One      Arabian Nights:

 
Boccaccio
 
Dante
 
Homer
 
Scheherezade
1 points
Question 6 

1. ______________ is the basic      material out of which most plots are made.

 
denouement
 
crisis
 
climax
 
conflict
1 points
Question 7 

1. . . . .destruction after all is a form of creation. A      kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become.

 
“Destructors”
 
“Greenleaf”
 
“Child by Tiger”
 
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”
1 points
Question 8 

1. Wrote “The Rocking-Horse Winner”:

 
Boccaccio
 
Poe
 
D. H. Lawrence
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1 points
Question 9 

1. He had taken a dreary road,      darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood      aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.      It was all as lonely as could be.

 
“Young   Goodman Brown”
 
“Greenleaf”
 
“The   Lottery”
 
“The Most   Dangerous Game”
1 points
Question 10 

1. In the ______________, the scene      is set, the protagonist is introduced, and the author discloses any other      background information necessary for the reader to understand the events      that follow:

 
denouement
 
exposition
 
complication
 
climax
1 points
Question 11 

1. Flashback is the term used to      refer to events to come in a narrative:

True
False
1 points
Question 12 

1. Point of view in which the      narrator knows everything about all of the characters and events in the      story is called total omniscience:

True
False
1 points
Question 13 

1. “Poor little Faith!” thought he,      for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an      errand! She talks of dreams, too”

 
Mrs.   May
 
Young   Goodman Brown
 
Hester
 
Mrs.   Hutchinson
1 points
Question 14 

1. Felt that death of a beautiful      woman was the highest form of beauty:

 
Hawthorne
 
Shakespeare
 
Poe
 
Irving
1 points
Question 15 

1. An indication of events to come in      a narrative:

 
Foreshadowing
 
Epiphany
 
Flashback
 
Foresight
1 points
Question 16 

1. The most significant character or      force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative is called the      antagonist:

True
False
1 points
Question 17 

1. The point of highest tension in a      short story is its:

 
denouement
 
exposition
 
complication
 
climax
1 points
Question 18 

1. “Faith! Faith!” cried the husband.      “Look up to heaven, and resist the Wicked one!”

 
“Young Goodman   Brown”
 
“The Rocking Horse   Winner”
 
“The Lottery”
 
“The Most Dangerous   Game”
1 points
Question 19 

1. There was a woman who was      beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck.

 
“Destructors”
 
“Greenleaf”
 
“Child by Tiger”
 
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”
1 points
Question 20 

1. Point of view in which the      narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of the characters:

 
Total Omniscience
 
Limited Omniscience
 
Editorial Omniscience
 
Objective point of view